Yesterday morning I returned from my two week Honeymoon in Peru, where my wife and I made a conscious decision to stay as disconnected from the world as possible. No cell phone use. No internet browsing. No checking of voice messages or emails. And absolutely no following of the Mets; after all, nothing can interfere with a relaxing time away that affords the opportunity to regain some perspective than thinking about the Metropolitans. So as I have spent the last day catching up with my world, an unhealthy dose of which revolves around The Amazins', it feels as if I never left.
Apparently, you can spend significant periods of time cutting the Mets out of your life and would not miss a thing because it is always the same story: the team is under achieving and inspire no hope for their fan base; the usual parties continue to suffer from recurring injuries; the manager gives brutal press conferences where he drawls on an on for twenty-minutes leaving the fans to wonder if he is talking about the same group they have been forced to watch; and of course all this is topped off by theater of the absurd moment involving key personnel, in which every fan, sportswriter, blogger, reporter, analyst, etc. AROUND THE NATION provides the obligatory, "Only the Mets" statement.
The Mets have managed to become so predictable in not only their ineptitude but in their drama that in following them you feel as you are immersed in a "Groundhog Day" world, where you are living the same day over and over again. Unfortunately, unlike Bill Murray's Phil, our role as Met fans are not characters in a movie where we can look forward to an end to the monotony of it all.
Angry Met Fan would like to thank the guest writers for their postings during my absence. Hopefully they will continue to post whenever they so desire as their insight only adds to the bright future of this blog.
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